Agrimony: Overcoming fear & inner blockages; dispelling negative emotions. Also used for reversing
spells. Sew into a dream pillow with Mugwort for best results. Use as a wash or oil to increase the
effectiveness of all forms of healing rituals. Wards off evil entities and poison.
Ague: Protection, hex breaking. Used in amulets to protect against evil. Mix with incense and burn to break
a hex that has been placed on you. AKA: Ague Root, Ague Weed
Alder: Associated with divination, music, poetry, wind magick, weather magick, teaching, and decision
making. Also used in rituals of death & dying to provide protection for the deceased.
Alfalfa: Money, prosperity, anti-hunger. Put a small jar in the cupboard or pantry to ward off poverty and
hunger. Burn in a cauldron and use the ashes in amulets for protection from hunger and poverty. AKA:
Lucerne, Buffalo Herb, And Purple Medic
Alkanet: Purification, prosperity. Protects from snakebites and helps ease fear of snakes. Burned as an
incense to replace negativity with positive influence. AKA: Anchusa, Dyer's Bugloss, Orchanet, Spanish Bugloss
Allspice: Money, luck, healing, obtaining treasure Very vitalizing. Provides added determination and
energy to any spells and charms. Burn crushed allspice to attract luck and money. Use in herbal baths for
healing. excellent for convalescents. Anoint daily. AKA: Jamaica Pepper
Almond: Almond oil, the symbol of wakefulness to the Egyptians, is used in prosperity rituals (anointing
candles, money, etc.) and also added to money incenses. Wisdom, money, fruitfulness, and prosperity.
Invokes the healing energy of the deities. Provides magickal help for overcoming dependencies &
addiction. Associated with Candlemas and Beltane. Carry, wear, or use as incense to attract abundance.
AKA: Greek Nuts, Shakad
Aloe: Protection and luck. Place on the grave of a loved one to promote peaceful energy. Thought to relieve
loneliness and assist with success. Hang in the home to attract luck and protection for those who live there.
Grow in the home to provide protection from household accidents. Burn on the night of a full moon to
bring a new lover by the new moon. AKA: Burn Plant, Medicine Plant
ALTHEA
Connected to the element of water, Althea is used for protection and to enhance psychic powers. It is
known to be a spirit pulling herb--place it on the altar to bring good spirits to help with your ritual.
Traditional Uses:
1) For protection, burn on charcoal or carry in a white pouch inscribed with this rune.
2) To enhance psychic powers, burn on charcoal.
3) Place on altar to attract good spirits during ritual.
4) Burn on charcoal to attract good spirits.
Althea Root: Burn or place in a sachet to bring protection, calm an angry person, and aid psychic powers. Keep on the altar or burn on candles to attract good spirits.
Alyssum: Protection and moderating anger, protection
Amaranth: Healing, Summoning Spirits, Healing Broken Hearts, Protection from Bullets, Invisibility
Amber: Protection from harm, outside influences, and psychic attacks. Mental clarity & focus.
Transforming negative energy to positive energy.
Ambergris: Enhance dreams and psychic ventures, attract men
Anemone: Healing and Protection
ANGELICA
This masculine herb, also known as Masterwort, is connected to the Sun and the element of fire. Known to
be a protective plant, it is sometimes used in protection and exorcism incenses. It is also used for luck and
to promote healing.
Traditional Uses:
1) For luck, place in small green pouch (or wrap in green fabric) and carry in your pocket.
2) Sprinkle in each of the four corners of the house for protection against negativity.
3) To promote healing, burn on charcoal alone or with other healing herbs such as sandalwood, elder,
frankincense, myrrh, vervain or yerba santa.
Angelica: Very powerful protection herb - protects against negative energy and attracts positive energy;
creates a barrier against negative energy. Use in healing & exorcism incenses; scatter for purification,
protection, and uncrossing. Add to incense to promote healing or to the bath to remove curses, hexes, or
spells. Also thought to promote temperance. Sprinkle ground herb in the shoes to prevent tiredness and
weakness. Sprinkle around the outside perimeter of the home for protection and exorcism. Burn to bring a
lost love back to you. AKA: Masterwort, Archangel, Garden Angel, Angelica Root
Anise: A boon to clairvoyance, it is often added to a ritual bath preceeding any attempt at divination. It is
also worn during divinatory rituals. Used to help ward off the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulate
psychic ability. Fill a sleep pillow with anise seed to prevent disturbing dreams. Use to invoke Mercury and
Apollo. Great for aromatherapy. Use in purification baths with bay leaves. A sprig of Anise hung on the
bedpost will restore lost youth. Use in protection and meditation incenses. AKA: Aniseed, Anneys, and Anise Seed
Annato - (Lipstick tree) - Lightly crushed seeds added to food is like natural gas-x. (editor note: ???)
Apple: Love, Garden Magick, Immortality, Friendship, Healing. Place seven apple seeds in a bag with Orris Root to attract sexual love. Use in rituals to give honor to gods and goddesses of fertility. Considered
the food of the dead, which is why Samhain is called the 'Feast of Apples'. Symbolizes the soul and is
burned at Samhain in honor of those who will be reborn in the spring. When doing a house blessing, cut an
apple in half -- eat half and put the other half outside of the home as an offering. AKA: Fruit of the
Underworld, Fruit of the Gods, Silver Bough, Silver Branch, and Tree of Love
APPLE BLOSSOM: Wear to promote happiness and success. Anoint candles during love rituals. Add to
bath to aid relaxation.
Apricot: Love. Add leaves and flowers to love sachets or carry apricot pits to attract love.
Arabic Gum: Protection, psychic and spiritual enhancement, money, platonic love, and friendship. Use to anoint candles & censers and to consecrate chests or boxes that hold ritual tools. Use in incense to promote a meditative state. AKA: Acacia, Gum Arabic
Arnica Flowers: Increases psychic powers
Arrow Root: Purification and healing; can be used as a substitute for graveyard dust. (Powder) One tbsp in
a cup of juice every few hours to relieve diarrhea. Poultice to soothe skin inflammations
ASH BARK
A very druid sacred tree, the Ash is part of the sacred trio "by oak, by ash and by thorn" of ancient British
legend. This powerful tree is used for protection, and to attract prosperity, and love.
Traditional Uses:
1) Place in a white pouch inscribed with a protection symbol and wear as protection from the negativity
of others.
2) Place in the four corners of the house for protection.
3) Burn at Yule to attract prosperity in the coming year.
4) Place in a green pouch inscribed with a (love attracting) rune to attract the opposite sex.
Ash Sea: spells/magick/rituals, image magick, invincibility, protection from drowning, general protection, and luck. Burning an ash log at Yule brings prosperity. The leaf of this plant is used for travel safety. Place one tablespoon of ash leaves in a bowl of water in the bedroom overnight, then toss out in the morning -- doing this daily is said to prevent illness.
Asofoetida: Buy the tincture in Indian shops. They add a drop to many dishes to relieve stomach pains
(gas). Insect repellent. Topical use to heal ulcerated sores. Protection and banishing negativity. Be
forewarned that this herb is powerful, but has an awful smell when burned. AKA: Devil's Dung, Food of
the Gods
Asparagus: Male Sex Magick, Boil in water and drink the water for kidney problems. Dissolves uric acid
deposits and promotes urination.
Aspen: Eloquence, clairvoyance, healing, and anti-theft. Plant in your garden for protection against thieves.
Aster Love AKA: China Aster, Michaelmas Daisy, Starwort
Astragalus Root: Protection and energy
Avocado: Love, lust and beauty. Also used for sex magick. AKA: Ahuacotl, Alligator Pear, Persea
Azalea: Happiness, gaie
Ambergris: Enhance dreams and psychic ventures, attract men
Anemone: Healing and Protection
ANGELICA
This masculine herb, also known as Masterwort, is connected to the Sun and the element of fire. Known to
be a protective plant, it is sometimes used in protection and exorcism incenses. It is also used for luck and
to promote healing.
Traditional Uses:
1) For luck, place in small green pouch (or wrap in green fabric) and carry in your pocket.
2) Sprinkle in each of the four corners of the house for protection against negativity.
3) To promote healing, burn on charcoal alone or with other healing herbs such as sandalwood, elder,
frankincense, myrrh, vervain or yerba santa
Angelica: Very powerful protection herb - protects against negative energy and attracts positive energy;
creates a barrier against negative energy. Use in healing & exorcism incenses; scatter for purification,
protection, and uncrossing. Add to incense to promote healing or to the bath to remove curses, hexes, or
spells. Also thought to promote temperance. Sprinkle ground herb in the shoes to prevent tiredness and
weakness. Sprinkle around the outside perimeter of the home for protection and exorcism. Burn to bring a
lost love back to you. AKA: Masterwort, Archangel, Garden Angel, Angelica Root
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Bachelor Buttons: Love AKA: Devil's Flower, Red Campion
Bakuli Pods: Difficult to find magic item also used in sachets and potpourri.
BALM OF GILEAD
Connected to the planet Venus and the element of water, Balm of Gilead is used to promote healing and
protection.
Traditional Uses:
1) Sew into a red pouch and carry to attract a new love or to soothe a broken heart.
2) Sew into blue pouch and carry with you to promote healing.
3) Sew into a white pouch and carry with you to promote protection.
Balm of Gilead Tears: Love, manifestations, protection, healing, de-stressing, and assisting in healing from
the loss of a loved one. Use in love sachets; carry for healing, protection, and mending a broken heart. Use
to dress candles for any form of magickal healing. Burn to attract spirits. AKA: Poplar Buds, Balsam Poplar, Balm of Gilead, Mecca, Mecca Balsam, Balessan, and Bechan
Balmony: Steadfastness, patience, and perseverance. Associated with the tortoise or turtle. AKA:
Hummingbird Tree, Bitter Herb, Snake Head, Turtle Head, and Turtle Bloom
Balsam: Strength and breaking up negativity
Bamboo: Hex breaking, wishes, luck and protection. Carve a wish into bamboo and bury it in a secluded area to make your wish come true. Carry a piece of bamboo for good luck.
Banana: Fertility, potency, and prosperity
Banyan: Happiness, Luck
Barberry: Cleansing, sorcery, atonement, freeing oneself from the power or control of another. AKA:
Witches Sweets
Barley: Love, healing, and protection. Harvests. Scatter on the ground to keep evil at bay. Tie barley straw
around a rock and throw into a river or lake while visualizing any pain you have to make the pain go away.
Basil: Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off
hostile spirits. Associated with Candlemas. Carry to move forward in a positive manner despite perilous
danger. Strewn on floors to provide protection from evil. Sprinkle an infusion of basil outside of the
building where you hope to be employed for luck in a job interview (be careful not to be seen!) or in your
business to attract money and success. Wear or carry to aid in attracting money and prosperity. Add fresh
herb or seeds to boiled water to make tea for migraines and bed time restlessness. Douche for yeast
infections, eliminates Candida, gargle and mouthwash. Pregnant women should avoid medicinal use of
basil. The scent of basil causes sympathy between two people so wear to avoid major clashes. It creates
harmony of all kinds. Prostitutes used to wear it in Spain to attract business. AKA: Common Basil, Sweet
Basil, St. Josephwort, St. Joseph's Wort, Tulsi, Tulasi, Krishnamul, Kala Tulasi, Witches' Herb, Alabahaca,
American Dittany
Bats Head Root: Use to obtain wishes.
Bay Laurel: Purification, house and business blessing, and clearing confusion. Attracts romance. Keep
potted plant to protect home from lightning. Place in a dream pillow for sound sleep and to induce
prophetic dreams. Heat leaves in a little olive oil to make a bay oil salve for arthritis and aches. AKA: Bay,
Sweet Laurel, Sweet Bay, True Laurel, Lorbeer, Noble Laurel, Baie, Daphne
Bay Leaf: Protection, good fortune, success, purification, strength, healing and psychic powers. Write
wishes on the leaves and then burn the leaves to make the wishes come true. Place under the pillow (or use
in dream pillow) to induce prophetic dreams. Place in the corner of each room in the house to protect all
that dwell there. Carry bay leaf to protect yourself against black magick.
Bayberry: Good fortune, luck, healing, and stress relief. Burn a white candle sprinkled with bayberry bark
for good fortune and money Anoint green candles for prosperity in the home. Brings "luck to your home
and gold to your pocket." A magnetic oil to be worn by men. AKA: American Vegetable Tallow Tree,
Myrtle, Wax Myrtle, Candleberry, Candleberry Myrtle, Tallow Shrub, American Vegetable Wax, Vegetable
Tallow, Waxberry, Pepperidge Bush, Berbery
Bedstraw (Fragrant):Love and lust
Beech: Wishes, happiness and divination. Improves literary skills. Place a leaf of beech between covers of Book of Shadows to increase inspiration.
Beet: Love. Beet juice can be used as ink for love magick or as a substitute for blood in spells and rituals.
Belladonna: Healing & forgetting past loves. Provides protection when placed in a secret place in the home.
Place on a ritual altar to honor the deities and add energy to rituals. Note: Deadly poison, do not ingest.
AKA: Banewort, Deadly Nightshade, Sorcerer's Berry, Witch's Berry, Death's Herb, Devil's Cherries,
Divale, Dwale, Dwaleberry, Dwayberry, Fair Lady, Great Morel, Naughty Man's Cherries
BENZOIN
Connected to the Sun and the element of air, Benzoin is used for purification and to attract abundance.
Traditional Uses:
1) For purification, burn alone or add to other purifying herbs such as sage, frankincense and myrrh.
2) Combine with cinnamon and basil and burn on charcoal to attract customers to your business.
3) To attract abundance--combine with other prosperity herbs (such as Cedar, Irish Moss, Mint, High
John, Sassafras, etc.) and place in a green pouch inscribed (if possible) with A prosperity rune. Wear or
carry with you.
Benzoin: Purification, prosperity, soothing tension, dispelling anger, diminishing irritability, relieving stress & anxiety, and overcoming depression. Promotes generosity and concentration. Good to burn while using the Tarot or for success in intellectual matters. Smoulder for purification. An incense of Benzoin, cinnamon and basil is said to attract customers to your place of business: This oil brings peace of mind. It is used in purification ceremonies. A drop or two smouldering on a charcoal block will effectively cleanse the area with billowing clouds of smoke. AKA: Snowbells, Storax, Gum Benzoin, Siam Benzoin, Siamese Benzoin, Benzoin Gum, Ben, and Benjamen
Bergamot: Money, prosperity, protection from evil and illness, improving memory, stopping interference, and promoting restful sleep. Carry in a sachet while gambling to draw luck and money. Very powerful for attracting success. Burn at any ritual to increase its power. Used in protective rituals and also in drawing prosperity. Wear on the palm of each hand. AKA: Orange Mint
Betel Nut: Protection and banishing
BIRCH
This "Lady of the Woods" was considered by the Druids to be a sacred tree. She is closely connected to
Venus and the element of water. She brings the influence of love, purification, and protection, and is the
wood of choice when working with runes. Its been known to be used for protection against lightning and
warding off the evil eye when you hang a red ribbon of the stem of the birch.
Traditional Uses:
1) To attract love, carve with love attracting runes (or write with red ink) Burn or toss into a running river
(or stream, etc.). For best results, do this on a Friday.
2) To remove negativity from people or animals, gently tap them with a piece of birch.
3) Carve with protection runes and place in the home or carry for protection.
4) Tie a stem of birch with a red ribbon to ward off negativity.
Birch: Protection, exorcism and purification. A birch planted close to the home is said to protect against
lightning, infertility, and the evil eye. AKA: White Birch, Canoe Birch, Paper Birch, Tree of Life, Lady of
the Woods
Bistort: Fertility, divination, clairvoyance, psychic powers. Carry in a sachet for fertility and conception. Add to any herbal mixture to boost divination. Burn with frankincense during divination or to enhance psychic powers. Carry in a yellow flannel bag to attract wealth & good fortune. Sprinkle an infusion of bistort around the home to drive out poltergeists. AKA: Bistort Root, Dragonwort
BLACK COHOSH
This masculine herb, also known as Black Snake Root, is used to attract love, to dispel negativity and to
gain courage.
1) To attract love, add to two other love herbs such as rose, lavender, Tonka, trillium, & vervain and sew into a red pouch. If possible, inscribed with love symbols. Wear near your heart.
2) Carry in a dark red pouch to strengthen courage.
3) Steep in boiling water, strain, and sprinkle infusion around room to dispel negativity.
Black Cohosh: Love, courage, protection and potency. Use in love sachets or in the bath to prevent
impotence. Carry in pocket or amulet for courage and/or strength. Sprinkle around a room to drive away
evil. Add an infusion of the herb to bath water to ensure a long and happy life. Burn as love incense. Put in
purple flannel bag for protection for accidents and sudden death and to keep others from doing you wrong.
AKA: Black Snake Root, Bugbane, Squawroot, Bugwort, Rattleroot, Rattleweed, Rattlesnake Root, and
Richweed
Black Haw: Protection, gambling, luck, power and employment. Carry in the pocket while seeking
employment, if you are having problems at work, or if you are asking for a raise. AKA: Devil's Shoestring,
Stagbush, And American Sloe
Black Pepper: Banishing negativity, exorcism, and protection from evil.
Blackberry: Healing, protection and money. Sacred to Brighid. Leaves and berries said to attract wealth and
healing.
Bladderwrack: Protection, sea spells, wind spells, money, psychic powers, and attracting customers. Wear
in a charm for protection during travel, especially when traveling by water. AKA: Kelp, Seawrack,
Kelpware, Black-tang, Cutweed, Sea Oak, Sea Spirit
BLESSED THISTLE
Also known as Holy Thistle, this Druid sacred herb is commonly used for protection and purification.
Traditional Uses:
1) Carry or wear around neck (sewn into or put into a white pouch) as a protective amulet and to give
you strength.
2) Add to bath (tied up in white muslin) for purification purposes.
3) Sew into white pouch and hang anywhere (house, car) for protective purposes.
4) Place in room (in a bowl) to fortify and revitalize all who are near it.
Blessed Thistle: Purification, protection against negativity and evil, hex breaking. Carry for strength and
protection. Place a bowl of blessed thistle in a room to renew the vitality and strengthen the spirit of its
occupants. Men who carry thistle become better lovers. AKA: Holy Thistle, Saint Benedict Thistle, Spotted
Thistle, Cardin
BLOOD ROOT
Connected to the planet Mars and the element of fire; Blood Root is used to promote love and protection
and is also used for purification.
Traditional Uses:
1) Sew into a red cloth inscribed with a love attracting rune and carry to draw love to you.
2) Sew into a white cloth inscribed with a protection rune and carry to ward off negativity
3) Place above doorways and on window sills for home protection.
Bloodroot: Love, protection, and purification. Steep in red wine for a full cycle of the moon to use as a
"blood offering" for spells that call for this -- DO NOT DRINK THE WINE. Place in windows and
doorways to keep curses and evil spirits out. A favorite root for use in voodoo to defeat hexes and spells
aimed against you. AKA: Red Root, Red Indian Paint, Tetterwort, Blood Root, Indian Paint, Pauson, Red
Paint Root, Red Puccoon, and Sanguinariat
Blowball: Love and wishes. Carry in a red bag to grant wishes. Blow to the four directions when searchingfor love.
Blue Cohosh: Empowerment, purification, money drawing, love breaking, and driving away evil.
Blue Violet: Love, inspiration, good fortune, and protection from all evil. Carried for protection and to
encourage fortune and changed luck. Mixed with lavender to attract lust and love. Worn to calm tempers
and bring sleep. AKA: Sweet Scented Violet